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The Department of Philosophy Welcomes a New Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Race: Dr. Adam Burgos.

Dr. Adam Burgos joins the faculty of the Department of Philosophy in August 2016 for a one-year fellowship through the The Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges.

As postdoctoral fellow at Bucknell, Dr. Burgos will share his teaching and research expertise in social and political philosophy, including philosophy of the Americas, and on issues surrounding resistance and political identity as they relate to democracy, equality and legitimacy. His book, Political Philosophy and Political Action: Imperatives of Resistance, will be released in December 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield International.

Burgos comes to Bucknell from Vanderbilt University where he earned his PhD in philosophy. Originally from Philadelphia, Dr. Burgos is happy to return to teach in his home state. In addition to being a philosopher, Burgos plays squash, loves film, and speaks Spanish with an Argentine accent.

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The Dalai Lama did it. So did Martin Luther King Jr., Susan Sontag and Bill Clinton. Each of them studied philosophy, and each has in his or her own way transformed the world.

Here you'll examine questions about the nature of knowledge, reality and value — questions that are so fundamental to human existence that they are neither easily answered nor easily ignored. With the wisdom you gain, you'll be ready for graduate, medical, law or business school, the corporate world, nonprofit work or creative, educational and entrepreneurial pathways.

Courses You Could Take

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Greek Philosophy

Studies of the ancient Greek notions of the kosmos or universe, society, and the soul, through readings of the Presocratics, Socrates and Plato, and Aristotle.

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Metaphysics

An inquiry into the nature of being/reality. Topics may include the ontological status of universals, mind, personal identity, freedom, time and God.

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The Philosophy of Peace & Nonviolence

Investigate the arguments and spirit of pacifism and nonviolent philosophies.

Did You Know?

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy students learn how to think with a methodical care and rigor that is useful in practice as well as a prerequisite for abstract and theoretical analysis.

Studying philosophy develops skills in interpreting texts, thoughtfully responding to other viewpoints, constructing and evaluating argumentation and the disciplined imagining of novel possibilities for human knowing, valuing and living.

Students develop a disciplined approach to creative thought as they learn philosophical methods and ideas.

Students can study several areas of non-Western philosophy, such as Islamic philosophy, Indian philosophy and Chinese philosophy.

Faculty Spotlight

Associate Professor

"The main thing I'm interested in understanding is the nature of our sense-perceptual relationship to the world. We see, hear, taste, touch and smell and the question is, what exactly is it that we are doing when we are doing these things?"

Professor

"The fact that animals cannot use human speech and the fact that most animals don't seem to order their thoughts linguistically doesn't change the fact that there are many, many non-human animals on earth who have rich subjective lives that mean a lot to them."

Living-Learning Communities

Students in the Humanities College explore the relationship between abstract ideas and life as we live it through a variety of courses that relate the classical tradition to the modern world; the sacred to the political; and the artistic to the technological.

Think across the boundaries between visual, art, science, literature, philosophy, popular culture, and music.

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